The Civic: The official Car of Horny Ninjas!

Toyota, Nissan, and Honda normal don't bring up the fact that they are Japanese companies in their ads. If they mention geography at all it is normally to focus on the fact that most of the vehicles they sell in America  are actually built in the southern United States.*

But this Honda ad features Japanese stuff out the ass. It starts what appears to be the slightly older Japanse version of "Hit Girl", is clearly is supposed to take place in Japan, has the main character go to a video game arcade, which I guess must still be popular in Japan but died out in America before the Play Station 2 had even come out. The ad even has those crazy customized "Art" trucks that are a thing in Japan but exist nowhere else, ever.

Over top all of this a girl group sings "I'm a Ninja! I'm a HORNY Ninja!" over and over again. If someone tried to make a safe-for-TV tourist ad for Japan based solely on reading the Cracked.com topics page about Japan, this would probably be the result.



In Summery: I have watched this commercial 4 times now, and my main reaction still is: "What the fuck just happened?"


Footnote(s):
*Which I would like to take the time to as quickly as possible point out that numerous foreign cars made in american these days makes these companies responsible for as many american factory jobs as GM or Chrysler, who make almost all of their parts overseas at this point and just ship them to Detroit so they can stamp "Assembled in the USA" on their cars.

Many of the best selling GM and Chrysler models are actually made in Mexico and Canada these days (the canadian government ownes 10 percent of Chrysler because they gave a bunch of money to its bailout because it has so many factories in Canada.)

I'm not against overseas manufacturing, I just think its funny when people talk about "buying American" without doing the research into where their car is actually being made. Read this USA Today article if you want more info on this. Sorry to get serious for a minute. Here is the Monty Python Fish Slapping Dance to lighten the mood:

Podcast Episode 19

Thor's Hour of Thunder: Episode 19: Mars Needs Women!

We continue to have a sexy official site over at HourOfThunder.Podomatic.com, check it out.

This Episode We discuss:

Gary Oldman, X-men First Class, Kevin Bacon, Everything is better with Bacon, Everything is Better with Kevin Bacon, The Professional, Leon The Professional, Sebastian Shaw, Hugh Hefner, The Cuban Missile Crisis, Juggernaut, I'm the Juggernaut Bitch, Magneto, Professor X, Professor Charles Xavier, James McAvoy, Michael F. Assbender, Michael Fassbender, Danny Trejo, Runaway Trian, Eric Roberts, Key Grip, The Face is Familiar, The Dark Knight, Batman, Emma Robert's Dad, Doctor Who, Heath Ledger, The Joker, Diamonds are Forever, Moonraker, Ian Fleming, James Bond, the novel version of Moonraker, Wild Wild West, Will Smith, Tampa Bay Lightening, Tampa Bay Lightening Flash, The Flash, D.C. Comics. Los Angeles, Sacramento Kings, L.A. Kings, Anaheim Kings, Clippers, L.A. Clippers, Kobe Bryant, Lakers, L.A. Lakers, Michael Vick, The Eagles, Hide your beagle Vick's and Eagle, Two and a half men, Charlie Sheen, Chuck Lore, Shut Up Crime!, Rainn Wilson, Super, Ellen Page, Coastal City, Green Lantern, Central City, The Shadow, Continental City, Canada, Hockey, , NHL HOCKEY, Stanley Cup, The Question, Watchmen, Hub City, Roshak, Roshak Sucks, moral compass, Ra al ghul, Cool World, Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Animated Horror, Horror, Fritz the Cat, X Rated for a reason, Lord of the Rings, Animated, American Pop, ralph bakshi, The original plot of the horror movie version of "Cool World". Johnny Cash, My Name is sue, how do you do? now your gonna die! denny o'neil

In keeping with our tradition of giving these episodes unrelated titles, we do not discuss "Mars Neds Women" the 1966 American International Pictures film.

Podcast Episode 2

Howdy there folks. Now that we upgraded over at podomatic, we can re-upload some of the old episodes of the podcast which we had to delete due to space constraints. Here is the first of these.

Thor's Hour of Thunder episode 2: The Wrath of Khan

Remember we still have a sexy official site for the podcast over at HourOfThunder.Podomatic.com

In this episode Shaun and Danny discusses death of the Human Torch, the fantastic four movies, Blade, Blade II, Julian McMahon, Nip/Tuck, Batman the Animated Series, DC versus Marvel Silver age comics, Clint Eastwood, The two 21st century big screen versions of the Incredible Hulk, Andrew Jackson,the X-files, Mad cow disease, Thomas Jefferson, and much more

Photo credit: its from this awesome cracked.com article entitled "Genius or Insane?"

Podcast Episode 18

Thor's Hour of Thunder: Episode 18: Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens

Sorry about the time off dear listeners, Thor and Baldr where off fighting the Ice Giants.

This week we discuss: X-men first class, Natalie Portman, Yalta, Ukraine, Star Wars: Episode 2: Attack of the Clones, Sand, Hayden Christensen, Doctor McNinja, Dr. McNinja, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time, Level 5 of that game, Lets kick shell!, Turtles forever, Waffle House, Waffle Hut, International House of Pancakes, velociraptor, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Lord of the RIngs, Lost, Charlie from Lost, Liev Schrieber, The Prestige, X-men Origins: Wolverine, The Hellfire Club, Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Orson Welles, "Start the Revolution Without Me", Robert Shaw, Marque De Sade, M.A.S.H., Kelly's Heros, Clint Eastwood,Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, peter wyngarde, Jason King.

Budweiser loves all teams equally

No wait! Bud says go Mets!

(PS Sorry about the huge space
below this image, I still haven't figured out how to have blogger
let me put more than one image on the same line without
it making a huge space below it, and making the formatting look
like ass in general.)

Bud says Go Yanks!

I get that any company that is the "official shitty beer" or " official cut of pork*" or "the official anal lubricant" of major league baseball is going to do team specific ads in each market using the logos of

the home team.

Obviously, they are not gonna make 30 different ads, so they photoshop the team's logo onto a

standard ad template.

As you can see here, bud when several steps beyond this.  Using the same models and photo but

splicing in the uniforms and stadium of each team.

No wait! Bud can't decide, but just
loves all baseball!

The photoshopping on this is first rate. I wish any movie poster ever bothered doing photoshop work

this well.

 If New York didn't have two different baseball teams and if Budweiser had not chosen to use ads for both the Yankees and Mets using this same photoshopped scene in the same subway cars, I am sure this wouldn't bother me. But as a Mets fan it makes me sad to see them getting the exact same ad as the Yankees. I am sure Yankees fans feel the same way.

So my final ruling on these ads is this: I have to give Budweiser accolades for doing such a great job in the execution of these ads. But I don't think they are gonna sell very much beer if people keep seeing them side by side with a team they hate. 

I am a new york transplant who doesn't follow baseball religiously, I can't even imagine how pissed this makes die hard life long fans who see these ads side by side on the subway.

Thanks to Kerry for pointing this silliness out to me, she also showed me that W.B. Mason uses the same ad in all their advertising space in every stadium in the country they buy ads, which says something along the lines of "W.B. Mason loves the your sports team name here now and forever and is loyal to them and no one else, pinky swear!"

Kerry pointed out it is pretty funny to see W.B. Mason cheering for every baseball team in the country if you are at a bar showing multiple games.

Footnote(s):

*I assume the iowa chop is the official cut if meat of the low minor league hockey team named "the iowa chops". Yes that is an actual team, read a great review of that team's name at logo over at Bush League Factor. (Actually if you don't read Bush League Factor in general, you should start, its really funny.)

A charmlying deshelved sign at the philadelphia patco public transit station

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This bunny only smokes pot

Fluffy here says cigarettes are for squares


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